qmail-users - assign mail addresses to users


OVERVIEW

       The  file  /var/qmail/users/assign  assigns  addresses  to
       users. For example,

          =joe.shmoe:joe:503:78:/home/joe:::

       says that mail for joe.shmoe should be delivered  to  user
       joe,   with   uid   503   and  gid  78,  as  specified  by
       /home/joe/.qmail.

       Assignments fed to qmail-newuser will be  used  by  qmail-
       lspawn  to  control  qmail-alias's deliveries.  See qmail-
       newuser(8).  A change to /var/qmail/users/assign will have
       no effect until qmail-newuser is run.


STRUCTURE

       /var/qmail/users/assign  is  a  series of assignments, one
       per line.  It ends with a line containing  a  single  dot.
       Lines must not contain NUL.


SIMPLE ASSIGNMENTS

       A simple assignment is a line of the form

          =local:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:ext:

       Here  local  is  an  address;  user,  uid, and gid are the
       account name, uid, and gid of the user in charge of local;
       and   messages  to  local  will  be  controlled  by  home-
       dir/.qmaildashext.

       If there  are  several  assignments  for  the  same  local
       address, qmail-lspawn will use the first one.

       local is interpreted without regard to case.


WILDCARD ASSIGNMENTS

       A wildcard assignment is a line of the form

          +loc:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:pre:

       This assignment applies to any address beginning with loc,
       including loc itself.  It means the same as

          =locext:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:preext:

       for every string ext.

       A more specific wildcard assignment overrides a less  spe-
       cific  assignment,  and  a simple assignment overrides any
       wildcard assignment.  For example:
          +joe-:joe:507:100:/home/joe:-::
          =joe:joe:507:100:/home/joe:::

       The address joe is handled by the third line; the  address
       joe-direct is handled by the second line; the address bill
       is handled by the first line.


SEE ALSO

       qmail-pw2user(8), qmail-newuser(8), qmail-lspawn(8)